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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






2. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






3. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






4. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






5. Multisensory Structured Language Education






6. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






7. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






8. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






9. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






10. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






11. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






12. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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13. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






14. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






15. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






16. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






17. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






19. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






20. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






21. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






22. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






23. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






24. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






25. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






26. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






27. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






28. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






29. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






30. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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31. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






33. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






34. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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35. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






36. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






37. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






38. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






39. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






40. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






41. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






42. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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43. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






44. Ability to understand and express spoken language






45. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






46. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






47. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






48. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






50. Multisensory Structured Language